
Quasicrystals
A Primer
C. Janot(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 28. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
426 pages
978-0-19-856551-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures. Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals. A previously formulated theory in terms of higher dimensional space groups was applied to them and new alloy phases were prepared which exhibited the properties expected from this model more closely. Thus many of the early controversies were dissolved. This primer is intended to provide a descriptive approach to the subject for those coming to it for the first time. The various practical, experimental, and theoretical topics are dealt with in an accessible style. The book is completed by problem sets and there is a computer program that generates a Penrose lattice. Following the success of the first and second editions the opportunity has been taken to reprint the second edition in paperback at a more modest price.
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Edition
New ed of 2 Revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
10 halftones, 70 line figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-856551-2 (9780198565512)
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Content
How to fill space with atoms in condensed matter; Real quasicrystals: preparation and characterization; High-dimensional crystallography; Where are the atoms?; Phonons, phasons, and dislocations in quasicrystals; A little more about the physics of quasicrystals